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The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society. It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however,...
Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
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Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe
Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
The end of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented coincidence of electoral success for social democratic parties in western Europe leading to intensive discussion on the future of this new European left. The debates often centred on the notion of a 'Third way' and generated major expectations...
Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge